My copier does make popsicles, But since it is a black and white copier, they only come out in 'charcoal' and 'ice' flavors, which is no fun.
Yours has charcoal? Damn, mine only has '25% post-consumer bleached Hammermill' and 'Xerox® toner'.
But seriously... what are the size limits, if any, on such ice models? They'd make some nice outdoor [insert your own holiday here] decorations. Assuming it stayed below 32F from December to February (it tends to do that in most of PA), it'd stay up for a while until either it gets warm and melts (no storage problem, for those of us with cluttered attics) or the local kids smash it with a snowshovel and beat my neighbor's cat with the remaining large bits.
Why not? The Indians are making a killing (Billion$ a year) from the White Man's gambling. I call it "reparations" for the 500+ years of abuse they've taken from the European invaders.
PS - I just clicked on the site -- came up empty (cannot find virtgame.com).
I gotta question... where are the parents of the Columbine shooters today? $20 says there's still sitting in their nice fucking homes in their nice little affluent community which has probably all-but-distanced themselves from what happened last year.
That's parenting today, fellow/.ers.
4.5 years ago, I could have very easily done the same thing at my high school; get 2 or 3 of my friends who were just as disgruntled with "THE SYSTEM" as I was * -- I could still make up a hit-list of at least 8 people (classmates & teachers) in less than 10 seconds to this very day.
Why didn't I?
I didn't want to put that kind of burden on my parents; them knowing that their son was a mass-murderer and being reminded of it every day.
* - "Abuses of the Popular"; e.g. the captain of the football team getting out of suspension (for drinking on a school trip) by having his mother, who was on the school board, file an injunction against the school itself. He'd be at the top of the list.
PS to lawmakers - no amount of gun laws would have prevented this -- pretty much all the guns & other weaponrly they used were in some form illegal (correct me if I'm wrong.)
Obviously NT/Linux hasn't gone through the scientific/academic environment speech yet.
My personal observations from the Physics/Astronomy department at the University of Pittsburgh:
Windows 95/98/NT/2000 usage on the whole is dropping like a brick. Every new PC that comes in to the department either dual-boots between Windows [98|NT|2000] and RedHat or runs RedHat exclusively.
Reason?
Professors and grad students here (mostly) love Mathematica and Maple, and find that Linux & Solaris allow them to run much more smoothly than on Windows *. You want stability tests and benchmarks? Use them two packages -- you'll see some pretty convincing results.
Professors and grad students here run a ton of Fortran code. g77 comes with Linux. Find a Fortran {77|90} compiler/interpreter/whatever for NT that's stable *and* find a prof/grad that's willing to use it.
Professors and grad students around here are notoriously cheap and stubborn. They've grown up on Unix (sadly, some also did VMS, and now have horrid psychological problems because of this) and Linux provides a very familiar interface. You'd believe the number of people here who bring up a DOS box in Windows and type 'ls'.
AFAIK, there is no good ssh1/2 & scp client/server package for 95/98/NT/2000.
None of the mirrors have the ISO for 4.1.1 as of right now (1104 EDT, 27 Sep 2000), and WC's site has all 3000 connections going. A bit of a problem for those of us who like the ISOs.
Remember americans take the first ammendment more seriously then any other.
Gee, and all this time I thought most Americans took the 2nd Amendment more seriously.:) Not saying that it isn't, but too damn many people are over-zealous about it. Which brings us back to the Columbine aftermath....
As far as I've ever seen, high-schools are the most fascistic (sp?) places I've ever been. The idea is to subjugate weak young minds into obedient servants who trust both government & business. Somehow they get the idea that squashing dissention is the best way to keep people in line.
Keep it up, high schools of America. More Columbines will pop up all over the place and will just as easily be forgotten after 15 minutes.
True that the compilation is processor-bound, but the install-world primarily is disk-bound. If/usr/obj is MFS, the writes are all memory->disk, rather than disk->memory->disk.
Even better idea - NFS-export the/usr/obj and mount it as/ on a diskless workstation. Or even better, make an ISO9660 image from it, add a boot sector, burn it on a CD, and use it as a backup filesystem!
Which brings us to another great use of an MFS - CD burning. Everything you want to burn in memory -- guaranteed to prevent buffer underruns!
<voice accent=uk occupation=cable_salesman>
The possibilies are endless, mates!</voice>
"If I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I would flood Napster's network...(and piss off all the script kiddies, too!)
And if I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I'd blow off the R-I-double-A...(and tell their lawyers to screw themselves!)
And if I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I'd produce another CD...(and get a ton of royalties...)
And if you have $17, go buy our CD!
Two years into the future: "Ecocrime has announced that they are putting into in effect a key escrow system that must be used by all Norweigan Internet users who use encryption. Anyone using an unauthorised encryption routine will be punished by public flogging and disembowlment."
I foresee a large influx of geeks to Sweden, Finland, and Iceland if the Internet Registration bullsh!t goes through.
And don't think the US is immune to such stupidity. If the government keeps pandering to Corporate America, this'll happen here too...
Five years into the future: A mass execution of the Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, and Alan Cox took place outside the UN building in New York, for violating the "Must Sell Out All Software" clause of the World Trade Treatise. Attempts to appeal their cases were squashed when a bomb exploded in the EFF headquarters. The RIAA and MPAA have not commented on any actions, other than small smirks on their faces. UN Chairman Bill Gates also had no comment.
How much power does it take? Will it be the next wave of laptop/PDA monitors?
Better yet, will they eventually make a 60" monitor of the stuff to put on the wall? Q3 on a giant screen like that might be nice - assuming they got the resolution to about 2400x1800 or so...
It was a real good article. I think more of the newer users of Linux should read a little more about people like this and a few other more important "personalities" of the Unix and programming and networking worlds. It will give you a much higher appreciation of the roots of Unix and therefore Linux also.
This is pretty necessary in my view -- too many of these so-called "experts" (which is rumoured to be the E in MCSE*) have no idea about the history of computing.
I once made reference to BWK to a friend of mine (a CN[AE] no less) who had no idea who I was talking about. I ended up teaching him about The Gods of Murray Hill for about half an hour (he didn't know of DMR and Ken Thompson either.) The poor bastard.
...might I also suggest large burlap bags of silica gel drying agent, just like the small packets you find in shoeboxes & electronics equipment. My dad swears by them whenever he stores his Corvette for the winter.
I figure smaller ones are available (I can't remember where; try your local Army surplus store) if you just want to throw one or two in a Rubbermaid storage container. That way it can also act as filler for excess space.
The way to "recharge" them when they're saturated is easy too; throw them in the oven at 300 degrees F for 20 minutes or so.
As long as "laughed out of court" is the standard precedent for all future DMCA cases, I'd call that a win
It's not a win until the DMCA is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court... ...then we can start celebrating and watching our DVD's on whatever computer we damn well feel like.
Not stupid to us/. legal experts:), but a judge would probably laugh it out.
Getting a judge to laugh out loud in full court is not exactly the precedent we'd like. At the very least, it'd prove that judges are not actually deceased and being strung up by marionettes and controlled by rather large conglomerates. (What? Imply that Kaplan might be a MPAA puppet? GOD, NO!)
The DMCA applies to the DeCSS case because there was encryption envolved ("access control"). Nothing of the sort in the Sony case.
It didn't have to be good encryption, they just had to try.
Lame, but true.
Ah, I see. So if I applied rot13 to protect my new commercial data distribution media and someone used/usr/games/rot13 and not my licenced decryption program to view it, they're in violation of the DMCA.
In the eyes of the DMCA, a lock made out of tissue paper is a lock nonetheless.
I agree with the above statement: if it ain't broke don't fix it. Who knows what kind of servers Microsoft is running? Does someone check all of them on the web on a daily basis?
Some 1337 5kr1p+ k1dd13 who's just learned how to run a portscanner probably scanned everything on M$'s subnets and said, "Hey, it's a 75% chance that they're running FreeBSD, so it's probably running FreeBSD!"
Besides, everyone already knows Hotmail is run on FreeBSD & Solaris. Nothing new there.
Going Offtopic a bit, why does everyone say "Windoze" or "M$" here. It's kind of like when Mac addicts say "PeeCee". After fighting with my sound card for an hour and a half, I don't say "Linsucks".
Actually, I like "Losedows" the best, but that's IMHfO. (related: "Lose98", "Lose2k", which both could pertain to monetary value.)
Generally, unless your doing some serous work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine.
Unless you want to boot windows 2000. Then that's another matter entirely.
I'm booting Win2k on a PII-266 *AND* do serious work on it. It pukes daily.
I'm just waiting for the first set of SMP Athlon mobo's. 4xThunderbird would be nice.
Sorry - my keyboard can't product an umlaut without copying one from a previous post.
But getting back to my original point -- everyone who speaks English has h{is|er} own dialect/accent which might make it slightly incomprehensible to others; most of those differences dissolve in the printed word.
E.g. I work in the Physics & Astronomy dept. at the University of Pittsburgh. I'd say about 40% of profs/post-docs/grad students are not from the USA and their native language isn't English (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) I often have trouble understanding their English through their own accents. I suspect that some might have trouble understanding me through my Pittsburgh accent'n'nat.
However, the primary means of communication is through e-mail. Although the vocabulary might be different (different dialects of English learned, as well as the fact that they are Physics people:), the accents have disappeared. The spoken communication barrier is gone.
I suspect the same would apply if I were working in a non-English speaking country; my spoken Spanish is bad and my German is even worse; but in print (read: e-mail) I could get by.
More important challenges of the day? First of all this is a manipulation of legislative process. It's important to keep investigating. Secondly, what else does the RIAA do that's so important?
Besides suing Napster I mean.
They gotta keep manufacturing gold and platinum albums for Britney Spears and Metallica.:)
Remember a few days ago when it was reported that CNN (a Time Warner company) posted a link to DeCSS? Wonder how many of the major 'Net news sites that are also owned my RIAA members (CNN [Time Warner], ABCNews.go.com [Disney], off the top of my head) posted links to Napster & Gnutella & the rest of them when reporting on it.
Rosen wants to talk about the media adding fuel to the fire -- she's bringing a tanker truck herself.
I think you mean Ü, which is found in the French word rue.
As far as I can tell, Ü sounds like the long "oo" in English. At least that's the way I learned it. Blame my German instructor if you will. (She was from Thuringen.)
Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
A: American
No lo comprendo.:)
I get the feeling that the/.ers are missing one critical difference -- spoken vs. written language. It seems to me that learning written language is a lot easier than learning to speak it. Personal experience was when I first took German last year...the o-umlaut (oe) sound doesn't really exist in English; I had a real weird time trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
If everyone on/. posted audio files of themselves speaking their posts, I figure some of us would have a hard time figuring out what some of us were saying, since the English phonemes don't exist in other languages and vice-versa.
Written English might become a 'Net standard, but the spoken word will always be a human standard (until the Government starts removing peoples' larnyces for speaking the DeCSS code out loud.:)
And personally, I don't think it goes far enough. It should extend to parts and systems sold at trade shows.
And you would intend on enforcing that how...?
I know people who've had trouble with Lemon Law claims for cars ("The problem isn't quite the same as the other problems, so the Lemon Law doesn't apply")...imagine how hard it'd be to enforce on a PC... (Actual run-around I had the other day when I couldn't connect to the 'net on my mother's computer)
ISP:"It's not the ISP, it's your modem."
Dell:"It's not your modem, it's your phone line."
Telco:"It's not the phone line, it's the ISP."
It was the driver for the modem. Would I be able to sue for a new driver? Would I be laughed out of court right now if I tried something like that?
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that just View - Explorer Bar - History (ie IE) or Communicator - Tools - History (in netscape) ?
/. again?"
Netscape: about:global, save it, and grep it for {jpg|gif|png|pr0n|Portman|CmdrTaco}.
> "Honey, what are all these files? cmdrtaco_and_natalie_portman.jpg? real_penis_bird.jpg? Have you been on
My copier does make popsicles, But since it is a black and white copier, they only come out in 'charcoal' and 'ice' flavors, which is no fun.
... what are the size limits, if any, on such ice models? They'd make some nice outdoor [insert your own holiday here] decorations. Assuming it stayed below 32F from December to February (it tends to do that in most of PA), it'd stay up for a while until either it gets warm and melts (no storage problem, for those of us with cluttered attics) or the local kids smash it with a snowshovel and beat my neighbor's cat with the remaining large bits.
Yours has charcoal? Damn, mine only has '25% post-consumer bleached Hammermill' and 'Xerox® toner'.
But seriously
Why not? The Indians are making a killing (Billion$ a year) from the White Man's gambling. I call it "reparations" for the 500+ years of abuse they've taken from the European invaders. PS - I just clicked on the site -- came up empty (cannot find virtgame.com).
I gotta question ... where are the parents of the Columbine shooters today? $20 says there's still sitting in their nice fucking homes in their nice little affluent community which has probably all-but-distanced themselves from what happened last year.
/.ers.
That's parenting today, fellow
4.5 years ago, I could have very easily done the same thing at my high school; get 2 or 3 of my friends who were just as disgruntled with "THE SYSTEM" as I was * -- I could still make up a hit-list of at least 8 people (classmates & teachers) in less than 10 seconds to this very day.
Why didn't I?
I didn't want to put that kind of burden on my parents; them knowing that their son was a mass-murderer and being reminded of it every day.
* - "Abuses of the Popular"; e.g. the captain of the football team getting out of suspension (for drinking on a school trip) by having his mother, who was on the school board, file an injunction against the school itself. He'd be at the top of the list.
PS to lawmakers - no amount of gun laws would have prevented this -- pretty much all the guns & other weaponrly they used were in some form illegal (correct me if I'm wrong.)
My personal observations from the Physics/Astronomy department at the University of Pittsburgh:
- Windows 95/98/NT/2000 usage on the whole is dropping like a brick. Every new PC that comes in to the department either dual-boots between Windows [98|NT|2000] and RedHat or runs RedHat exclusively.
- Professors and grad students here (mostly) love Mathematica and Maple, and find that Linux & Solaris allow them to run much more smoothly than on Windows *. You want stability tests and benchmarks? Use them two packages -- you'll see some pretty convincing results.
- Professors and grad students here run a ton of Fortran code. g77 comes with Linux. Find a Fortran {77|90} compiler/interpreter/whatever for NT that's stable *and* find a prof/grad that's willing to use it.
- Professors and grad students around here are notoriously cheap and stubborn. They've grown up on Unix (sadly, some also did VMS, and now have horrid psychological problems because of this) and Linux provides a very familiar interface. You'd believe the number of people here who bring up a DOS box in Windows and type 'ls'.
- AFAIK, there is no good ssh1/2 & scp client/server package for 95/98/NT/2000.
Your thoughts?Reason?
I'd like to know the rankings of some of the other biggies:
And, let's not forget the person without whom my lunch breaks would be silent...
None of the mirrors have the ISO for 4.1.1 as of right now (1104 EDT, 27 Sep 2000), and WC's site has all 3000 connections going. A bit of a problem for those of us who like the ISOs.
Remember americans take the first ammendment more seriously then any other. :) Not saying that it isn't, but too damn many people are over-zealous about it. Which brings us back to the Columbine aftermath....
Gee, and all this time I thought most Americans took the 2nd Amendment more seriously.
As far as I've ever seen, high-schools are the most fascistic (sp?) places I've ever been. The idea is to subjugate weak young minds into obedient servants who trust both government & business. Somehow they get the idea that squashing dissention is the best way to keep people in line.
Keep it up, high schools of America. More Columbines will pop up all over the place and will just as easily be forgotten after 15 minutes.
True that the compilation is processor-bound, but the install-world primarily is disk-bound. If /usr/obj is MFS, the writes are all memory->disk, rather than disk->memory->disk.
/usr/obj and mount it as / on a diskless workstation. Or even better, make an ISO9660 image from it, add a boot sector, burn it on a CD, and use it as a backup filesystem!
Even better idea - NFS-export the
Which brings us to another great use of an MFS - CD burning. Everything you want to burn in memory -- guaranteed to prevent buffer underruns!
<voice accent=uk occupation=cable_salesman> The possibilies are endless, mates!</voice>
"If I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I would flood Napster's network...(and piss off all the script kiddies, too!)
And if I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I'd blow off the R-I-double-A...(and tell their lawyers to screw themselves!)
And if I had a million dollars...(if I had a million dollars,)
I'd produce another CD...(and get a ton of royalties...)
And if you have $17, go buy our CD!
A fearless look into the possible future.
Two years into the future:
"Ecocrime has announced that they are putting into in effect a key escrow system that must be used by all Norweigan Internet users who use encryption. Anyone using an unauthorised encryption routine will be punished by public flogging and disembowlment."
I foresee a large influx of geeks to Sweden, Finland, and Iceland if the Internet Registration bullsh!t goes through.
And don't think the US is immune to such stupidity. If the government keeps pandering to Corporate America, this'll happen here too...
Five years into the future:
A mass execution of the Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, and Alan Cox took place outside the UN building in New York, for violating the "Must Sell Out All Software" clause of the World Trade Treatise. Attempts to appeal their cases were squashed when a bomb exploded in the EFF headquarters. The RIAA and MPAA have not commented on any actions, other than small smirks on their faces. UN Chairman Bill Gates also had no comment.
How much power does it take? Will it be the next wave of laptop/PDA monitors?
Better yet, will they eventually make a 60" monitor of the stuff to put on the wall? Q3 on a giant screen like that might be nice - assuming they got the resolution to about 2400x1800 or so...
It was a real good article. I think more of the newer users of Linux should read a little more about people like this and a few other more important "personalities" of the Unix and programming and networking worlds. It will give you a much higher appreciation of the roots of Unix and therefore Linux also.
This is pretty necessary in my view -- too many of these so-called "experts" (which is rumoured to be the E in MCSE*) have no idea about the history of computing.
I once made reference to BWK to a friend of mine (a CN[AE] no less) who had no idea who I was talking about. I ended up teaching him about The Gods of Murray Hill for about half an hour (he didn't know of DMR and Ken Thompson either.) The poor bastard.
* MCSE = "Minesweeper Consultant/Solitare Expert"
...might I also suggest large burlap bags of silica gel drying agent, just like the small packets you find in shoeboxes & electronics equipment. My dad swears by them whenever he stores his Corvette for the winter.
I figure smaller ones are available (I can't remember where; try your local Army surplus store) if you just want to throw one or two in a Rubbermaid storage container. That way it can also act as filler for excess space.
The way to "recharge" them when they're saturated is easy too; throw them in the oven at 300 degrees F for 20 minutes or so.
As long as "laughed out of court" is the standard precedent for all future DMCA cases, I'd call that a win
...then we can start celebrating and watching our DVD's on whatever computer we damn well feel like.
It's not a win until the DMCA is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...
Not stupid to us /. legal experts :), but a judge would probably laugh it out.
Getting a judge to laugh out loud in full court is not exactly the precedent we'd like. At the very least, it'd prove that judges are not actually deceased and being strung up by marionettes and controlled by rather large conglomerates. (What? Imply that Kaplan might be a MPAA puppet? GOD, NO!)
The DMCA applies to the DeCSS case because there was encryption envolved ("access control"). Nothing of the sort in the Sony case.
/usr/games/rot13 and not my licenced decryption program to view it, they're in violation of the DMCA.
It didn't have to be good encryption, they just had to try.
Lame, but true.
Ah, I see. So if I applied rot13 to protect my new commercial data distribution media and someone used
In the eyes of the DMCA, a lock made out of tissue paper is a lock nonetheless.
I agree with the above statement: if it ain't broke don't fix it. Who knows what kind of servers Microsoft is running? Does someone check all of them on the web on a daily basis?
Some 1337 5kr1p+ k1dd13 who's just learned how to run a portscanner probably scanned everything on M$'s subnets and said, "Hey, it's a 75% chance that they're running FreeBSD, so it's probably running FreeBSD!"
Besides, everyone already knows Hotmail is run on FreeBSD & Solaris. Nothing new there.
Going Offtopic a bit, why does everyone say "Windoze" or "M$" here. It's kind of like when Mac addicts say "PeeCee". After fighting with my sound card for an hour and a half, I don't say "Linsucks".
Actually, I like "Losedows" the best, but that's IMHfO. (related: "Lose98", "Lose2k", which both could pertain to monetary value.)
Generally, unless your doing some serous work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine.
Unless you want to boot windows 2000. Then that's another matter entirely.
I'm booting Win2k on a PII-266 *AND* do serious work on it. It pukes daily.
I'm just waiting for the first set of SMP Athlon mobo's. 4xThunderbird would be nice.
Sorry - my keyboard can't product an umlaut without copying one from a previous post.
:), the accents have disappeared. The spoken communication barrier is gone.
But getting back to my original point -- everyone who speaks English has h{is|er} own dialect/accent which might make it slightly incomprehensible to others; most of those differences dissolve in the printed word.
E.g. I work in the Physics & Astronomy dept. at the University of Pittsburgh. I'd say about 40% of profs/post-docs/grad students are not from the USA and their native language isn't English (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) I often have trouble understanding their English through their own accents. I suspect that some might have trouble understanding me through my Pittsburgh accent'n'nat.
However, the primary means of communication is through e-mail. Although the vocabulary might be different (different dialects of English learned, as well as the fact that they are Physics people
I suspect the same would apply if I were working in a non-English speaking country; my spoken Spanish is bad and my German is even worse; but in print (read: e-mail) I could get by.
More important challenges of the day? First of all this is a manipulation of legislative process. It's important to keep investigating. Secondly, what else does the RIAA do that's so important? Besides suing Napster I mean.
:)
They gotta keep manufacturing gold and platinum albums for Britney Spears and Metallica.
Remember a few days ago when it was reported that CNN (a Time Warner company) posted a link to DeCSS? Wonder how many of the major 'Net news sites that are also owned my RIAA members (CNN [Time Warner], ABCNews.go.com [Disney], off the top of my head) posted links to Napster & Gnutella & the rest of them when reporting on it.
Rosen wants to talk about the media adding fuel to the fire -- she's bringing a tanker truck herself.
I think you mean Ü, which is found in the French word rue. As far as I can tell, Ü sounds like the long "oo" in English. At least that's the way I learned it. Blame my German instructor if you will. (She was from Thuringen.)
Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
:)
/.ers are missing one critical difference -- spoken vs. written language. It seems to me that learning written language is a lot easier than learning to speak it. Personal experience was when I first took German last year...the o-umlaut (oe) sound doesn't really exist in English; I had a real weird time trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
/. posted audio files of themselves speaking their posts, I figure some of us would have a hard time figuring out what some of us were saying, since the English phonemes don't exist in other languages and vice-versa.
:)
A: American
No lo comprendo.
I get the feeling that the
If everyone on
Written English might become a 'Net standard, but the spoken word will always be a human standard (until the Government starts removing peoples' larnyces for speaking the DeCSS code out loud.
I'm saying what might be illegal is to refuse to sell to a state because of a law like that.
:)
Although now that I think about it--it might not be illegal (see also state tax laws), but it wouldn't stop someone suing the state anyway.
And personally, I don't think it goes far enough. It should extend to parts and systems sold at trade shows.
And you would intend on enforcing that how...?
I know people who've had trouble with Lemon Law claims for cars ("The problem isn't quite the same as the other problems, so the Lemon Law doesn't apply")...imagine how hard it'd be to enforce on a PC...
(Actual run-around I had the other day when I couldn't connect to the 'net on my mother's computer)
ISP:"It's not the ISP, it's your modem."
Dell:"It's not your modem, it's your phone line."
Telco:"It's not the phone line, it's the ISP."
It was the driver for the modem. Would I be able to sue for a new driver? Would I be laughed out of court right now if I tried something like that?